Cabinet Meeting Is First in Gaza Strip Since Hamas Took Control in 2007

GAZA CITY—Leaders of the Palestinian Authority ventured inside Gaza on Thursday for the first time in seven years, promising aid to the strip after a 50-day conflict with Israel and to mend fences with their Islamist rivals.

The government cabinet meeting was the first of its kind there since Hamas forcibly took control of Gaza in 2007. In June, Hamas and West Bank rival Fatahagreed to a new government of technocrats with the goal of eventually holding an election—a process that was derailed by the summer’s conflict with Israel,...